QR Challenge: Ecosystems Review
Teacher Notes
A. Prior to the lesson:
1. Arrange students into groups. Each group needs at least ONE person who has a mobile device.
2. If their phone camera doesn't automatically detect and decode QR codes, ask students to
- Download a QR reader (e.g. I-Nigma | NeoReader | Kaywa) onto their mobile devices
- Bring these devices into the lesson.
3. Print out the QR codes.
4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.
B. The lesson:
1. Give each group a clipboard and a piece of paper so they can write down the decoded questions and their answers to them.
2. Explain to the students that the codes are hidden around the school. Each team will get ONE point for each question they correctly decode and copy down onto their sheet, and a further TWO points if they can then provide the correct answer and write this down underneath the question.
3. Away they go! The winner is the first team to return with the most correct answers in the time available. This could be within a lesson, or during a lunchbreak, or even over several days!
C. TIPS / OTHER IDEAS
4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.
Questions / Answers (teacher reference)
Question | Answer |
1. In the photo, identify a producer, primary consumer, and secondary consumer | answers will vary
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2. Define the term "food web" | answer2
| 3. How is a food web different from a food chain? Answer in a complete sentence. | answer
| 4. How is a food web similar to a food chain? Answer in a complete sentence. | answer
| 5. _________ ___________ is the term for all the non-living things in a ecosystem | abiotic factors
| 6. _________ ___________ is the term for all the living things in a ecosystem | biotic factors
| 7. Place the following terms in order from the lowest level of biological organization to the highest: ecosystem, community, population, organism, biosphere, biome | djfkdl
| 8. Using the energy pyramid for reference, how much energy will be available at the secondary consumer level? | answer
| 9. Define the following terms: herbivore, carnivore, omnivore | answer
| 10. What is produced during photosynthesis? | answer
| 11. Which organisms make their own food through the process of photosynthesis? | answer
| 12. List 3 ways carbon dioxide is RELEASED into the atmosphere. | answer
| 13. What type of organism convert nitrogen into usable forms? | answer
| 14. Look at the following photo. Which type of succession do you think will occur? Defend your answer. | answer
| 15. What term describe a group of populations living together in an area? | answer
| 16. What biogeochemical cycle is occurring in the photo? | answer
| 17. Excess carbon dioxide causes the Earth's temperature to do what? | answer
| 18. What type of organism is the FIRST to arrive after a succession event? What is their role? | answer
| 19. Define transpiration | answer
| 20. Based on the graphs, the sustainability of ecosystems is __________ regardless of protected areas? | answer |
Ecosystems Review: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=In_the_photo,_identify_a_producer,_primary_consumer,_and_secondary_consumer
Question 1 (of 20)
Ecosystems Review: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Define_the_term_"food_web"
Question 2 (of 20)
Ecosystems Review: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=How_is_a_food_web_different_from_a_food_chain?_Answer_in_a_complete_sentence.
Question 3 (of 20)
Ecosystems Review: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=How_is_a_food_web_similar_to_a_food_chain?_Answer_in_a_complete_sentence.
Question 4 (of 20)
Ecosystems Review: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=______________________is_the_term_for_all_the_non-living_things_in_a_ecosystem
Question 5 (of 20)
Ecosystems Review: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=______________________is_the_term_for_all_the_living_things_in_a_ecosystem
Question 6 (of 20)
Ecosystems Review: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Place_the_following_terms_in_order_from_the_lowest_level_of_biological_organization_to_the_highest:_ecosystem,_community,_population,_organism,_biosphere,_biome
Question 7 (of 20)
Ecosystems Review: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Using_the_energy_pyramid_for_reference,_how_much_energy_will_be_available_at_the_secondary_consumer_level?
Question 8 (of 20)
Ecosystems Review: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Define_the_following_terms:_herbivore,_carnivore,_omnivore
Question 9 (of 20)
Ecosystems Review: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_is_produced_during_photosynthesis?
Question 10 (of 20)
Ecosystems Review: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Which_organisms_make_their_own_food_through_the_process_of_photosynthesis?
Question 11 (of 20)
Ecosystems Review: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=List_3_ways_carbon_dioxide_is_RELEASED_into_the_atmosphere.
Question 12 (of 20)
Ecosystems Review: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_type_of_organism_convert_nitrogen_into_usable_forms?
Question 13 (of 20)
Ecosystems Review: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Look_at_the_following_photo._Which_type_of_succession_do_you_think_will_occur?_Defend_your_answer.
Question 14 (of 20)
Ecosystems Review: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_term_describe_a_group_of_populations_living_together_in_an_area?
Question 15 (of 20)
Ecosystems Review: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_biogeochemical_cycle_is_occurring_in_the_photo?
Question 16 (of 20)
Ecosystems Review: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Excess_carbon_dioxide_causes_the_Earth's_temperature_to_do_what?
Question 17 (of 20)
Ecosystems Review: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_type_of_organism_is_the_FIRST_to_arrive_after_a_succession_event?_What_is_their_role?
Question 18 (of 20)
Ecosystems Review: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Define_transpiration
Question 19 (of 20)
Ecosystems Review: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Based_on_the_graphs,_the_sustainability_of_ecosystems_is____________regardless_of_protected_areas?
Question 20 (of 20)